Norway

Norway regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Norway's criminal law contains specific penalty enhancements for certain criminal offences. The reported official data include cases of incitement to hatred. Hate crime data are collected by the National Police Directorate. Hate crime statistics are regularly published. The National Police Directorate conducts annual victimization surveys, which include questions about hate crime.

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2020	744	804	67
2019	761	70	37
2018	624	60	37
2017	549	Not available	Not available
2016	466	Not available	Not available
2015	347	Not available	Not available
2014	223	Not available	Not available
2013	238	Not available	Not available
2012	216	Not available	Not available
2011	218	Not available	Not available
2010	307	Not available	Not available
2009	236	Not available	Not available

About 2011 Data

Figures include crimes of incitement to hatred. There is a discrepancy between the total figure and the sum of the breakdown by bias motivations because some crimes are recorded under multiple bias motivations.

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By type of crime

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National developments

The Norwegian Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik and charged him with the 22 July 2011 attacks on government buildings in Oslo and a political party youth summer camp on Utøya Island, which killed a total of 77 people and injured hundreds more. The main court trial began on 16 April 2012. Breivik has claimed he carried out the massacre on Utøya in order to wipe out the next generation of a political party he blamed for encouraging a multicultural Norway.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Norway provide more information on judicial statistics on prosecution, convictions and sentences on racist acts, noting a considerable lack of such information.